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“Thousands of soldier, their bald eagle shoulder dapple lined up row upon row across the grassy field, stood at rigid attending to hear a after part message from their commanding officer

“Brig[adier] Gen[eral] Sir Leslie Stephen Francis Everett Townsend addressed the 101st Airborne division with military brusqueness: self-destruction at the post had spiked after soldier started income tax returning home from war, and this was unacceptable.

” ‘It’s badnessness for soldier, it’s badness for families, badness for your units, badness for this division and our army and our country and it’s [sic] got to halt now.’ he insisted. ‘Suicides on garrison Joseph Campbell [Kentucky] have to stop now.’ “

I quote an article written on April 24, 2010 by Kristen m hallway of the Associated fourth estate. She turn on to tell the tale of twenty-one-year-old Adam Kuligowski upon his return from Islamic State of Afghanistan Adam loved the army and his job, but he became increasingly depressed and angry. Finally,

“Adam wrote.a short letter recounting his dad, [mike], ‘Sorry to be a disappointment.’ Then he shot himself inside a bath stall with his rifle

“When the army closed their investigation into the soldier’s suicid[Mike], his male parent said.an researcher told him that Adam’s problem was that he was unable to conform to a military life-style Mike Kuligowski did receive a personal short letter from the general who was commanding the division at the time: ‘We don’t know why this happened,’ he wrote.

“Kuligowski was not appeased. ‘It reminds me that military officer know absolutely nothing about the quandary of the soldier who are under their command,’ he said. ‘What kind of leading is that?’ “

Off the top of my head and in one word, I would say typical.

The predicament of these soldier was called “shell shock” in WWI. In WWII and Korea, it was called “battle fatigue.” Since Vietnam, the psychiatric diagnosis is post Traumatic accent Disorder, or PTSD But disregarding the labels, the symptom are the same and have been around for a long, long time—perhaps from the beginning of war itself.  For military leadership and researcher to excoriation their caput over the increase in self-destruction is ludicrous, and Gen[eral]ral Townsend’s declaration “to stop now” is way beyond asinine.

But according to Hall’s article, garrison Joseph Campbell is responding to the crisis

“The number of patient being treated at the behavioral health clinic has increased by LX percent,from 25,400 in 2008.to nearly 40,000 in 2009. To handle the expanded need, they’ve also increased the number of counselor in that clinic to LX last year, compared to 36 in 2008. In all, garrison Campbell has about one C counselor, some of whom work in areas like social work, family advocacy, substance maltreatment and children’s behavioral health.”

If all one C counselor worked directly with the patients, that would compeer a caseload of 400 men and women each. Since some of the counsellor work in other areas, that make the caseload even higher. It cannot be done, especially if proper charting is required and if meeting are frequent .

We railroad train our soldier to defend our country from a hostile invasion We railroad train them in all type of weaponry, to killing to protect the civilian public And then we send them to fourth-world land like Iraq and Afghanistan that don’t want them there in the first place, and our soldier kill to protect themselves from an enemy they cannot distinguish from a non-enemy. Amid the pandemonium they see atrocity no human should ever have to witness, including the bombardment of innocent children and infants.

Eventually the soldier come home and are discharged from service Most of them adjust to their old life again, but many don’t—the single who need help

As person whom I can’t remember said, “We make them into killing machines, but unfortunately there is no ‘off’ switch.”

Posted from Chandler, Arizona May 14, 2010